Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou, médialab SciencesPo & Regards Citoyens EUPADRA Rome October 6th 2017 TheLawFactory.fr Tracking the legislative drafting process using new technology & data visualization Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou, médialab SciencesPo & Regards Citoyens

Joining forces: citizen NGO + research labs Regards Citoyens citizen volunteer NGO 7 admins, 50 members ≈ 3000€ annual budget parliamentary monitoring, advocacy, opendata, politics & lobbying transparency http://RegardsCitoyens.org @RegardsCitoyens SciencesPo CEE & médialab research laboratories political science, controversy mapping, digital methods, digital humanities, network visualisation, datascapes http://medialab.sciences-po.fr @medialab_ScPo EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

Parliamentary activity monitoring NosDéputés.fr & NosSénateurs.fr, similar to OpenParlamento.it by OpenPolis - Visual & Statistical activity overview - Semantic analysis on debates - Access & Comment full legislative contents - Search & Track works with e-mail alerts - Redistribute Open Data for external reuses EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

Law is Code, GitLaw & other concepts of CivicTech Open Legislative Data Conference, Paris 2014 Revision control programming EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

Complexity of the legislative process « The legislative process is nowadays designed as it was in an era where the impact of IT barely existed. Technology innovations have increasingly facilitated the dematerialization of some steps of the process, but a new design of the whole process never occurred. » « Designing participatory processes in rule-making. » « At what time was a given amendment introduced, discussed and voted? Who is the author for a committee modification of a bill? » Paolo Coppola → Digital Innovation can help ! TheLawFactory.fr tries EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

TheLawFactory lets you browse ≈ 300 laws EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

Track text changes at each legislative stage EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

Explore individual amendments EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

Retrieve parliementary discussions EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

Analyse the Parliament's part in law-writing 74% of studied bills' text was modified by at least 50% 61% increased in size by at least 50% EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

Reveal and study obstruction techniques EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

Accessing bills data: sources & limitations Transforming bills into data can be complex missing pieces, partial bills, errata, tables… → only 70% of adopted bills EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

Inspire & feed from new official projects Assemblée nationale – Éliasse Sénat – En Séance Building official tools & Releasing institutional Open Data enables potential innovation through reuses EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr

Thank you for your attention! Questions? www.TheLawFactory.fr contact@lafabriquedelaloi.fr @RegardsCitoyens @medialab_ScPo EUPADRA - October 6th 2017 - Rome TheLawFactory.fr